Jenni Russell writes about Gordon Brown in The Guardian:
It is the disjunction between values and actions that is so damaging for Brown. He claims to believe in social justice, economic prudence and individual liberties, yet his record shows remarkable inconsistencies on all three. He presided over a boom based on cheap credit and mega City [...]
Mark Ballard, writing in The Inquirer, analyses the High Court’s judgement in the ID card Gateway FOI case:
Justice Stanley Burnton, the presiding judge, made an aside on the hopes of anti-ID card campaigners that the Gateway Reviews might prove damning to the programme as a whole.
“If there were a ’smoking gun’ in the reviews, the [...]
The Sunday Telegraph’s Westminster commentator “Portcullis” writes:
More confusion over the Government’s ill-fated ID card scheme after the Home Office minister Meg Hillier explained the system’s security measures to MPs in the wake of a string of Whitehall blunders.
She told the Home Affairs select committee: “The National Identity Register, essentially, will be a secure database… hack-proof, [...]
Stephen Howard writes in the Glasgow Herald:
A High Court judge yesterday quashed decisions to make public details of two early assessments of the government’s controversial ID cards scheme.
But Mr Justice Stanley Burnton said a different Information Tribunal should look again at the request under the Freedom of Information Act.
He said his ruling is not a [...]
James Slack writes in The Daily Mail:
Spending on consultants by the Home Office has rocketed by 2,000 per cent under Labour to almost £150m a year.
The total amount lavished on management consultants and other so-called experts over the past decade is £545m.
One of the major reasons for the expenditure is trying to get the controversial [...]
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